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Hiring activity related to artificial intelligence increased by a CAGR of 54% in the pharmaceutical industry since 2020

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The global pharmaceutical industry witnessed a 54% rise in compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in new job postings related to artificial intelligence since 2020, according to GlobalData's Job Analytics database. New job postings increased by 71% year-on-year in 2021 and by 39% year-on-year in 2022. 

Notably, computer and mathematical occupations jobs accounted for 38% share of the global pharmaceutical industry’s artificial intelligence-related new job postings since 2020.

Computer and mathematical occupations drive artificial intelligence-related hiring activity

Computer and mathematical occupations, with a share of 38%, emerged as the top artificial intelligence-related job roles within the pharmaceutical industry since 2020, with new job postings rising by 76% year-on-year in 2021 and falling by 36% year-on-year in 2022.  

Management occupations came in second with a share of 31%, with new job postings rising by 92% year-on-year in 2021 and by 51% year-on-year in 2022. 

The other prominent artificial intelligence roles include life, physical, and social science occupations with a 15% share, business and financial operations occupations with a 4% share and architecture and engineering occupations with a 4% share.

The top five companies in the pharmaceutical industry accounted for 43% of hiring activity

The top five companies, in terms of the number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, since 2020 were Johnson & Johnson, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, AstraZeneca, GSK, and Sanofi. Together they accounted for a combined share of 43% of all artificial intelligence-related new jobs in the pharmaceutical industry.  

Johnson & Johnson posted 5,827 artificial intelligence-related jobs since 2020, followed by F. Hoffmann-La Roche with 3,240 jobs, and AstraZeneca with 3,047 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics database.

New job postings by Johnson & Johnson increased by 77% year-on-year in 2021 and by 32% year-on-year in 2022, while those by F. Hoffmann-La Roche increased by 28% in 2021 and by 39% in 2022.

Hiring activity was driven by the US with a 55% share of total new job postings since 2020

The largest share of artificial intelligence-related new job postings in the pharmaceutical industry since 2020 was in the US with 55%, followed by the UK (7%) and India (6%). The share represented by the US increased by nine percentage points from 55% in 2021 to 64% in 2022.

GlobalData, the leading provider of industry intelligence, provided the underlying data, research, and analysis used to produce this article.   

GlobalData’s Job Analytics database uses machine learning to uncover key insights from tracking daily job postings for thousands of companies globally. Proprietary analysis is used to group jobs into key thematic areas and granular sectors across the world’s largest industries. 

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